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Acquired by the Hoover Institution Archives in 1956, with additional increments in 2013, 2014, and 2015.

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of boxes listed in this finding aid.

Secretary, American Legation, Brussels
Liaison between Herbert Hoover and the Belgian Government for the Commission for Relief in Belgium

1916

First Secretary, American Embassy, London

1917

Assigned to State Department - War Missions
Author,
A Journal from Our Legation in BelgiumAide to Lord Balfour, British Minister of Foreign Affairs, during visit to the U.S
Attached to Belgian War Mission during visit to the U.S.

1918

First Secretary, American Embassy, Paris
Advisor to General Pershing

1918-1919

Member, Interallied Mission to Countries of the Former Austro-Hungarian Empire

1919-1924

Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Poland (Warsaw)

1922

Married Ynes Reyntiens, Brussels

1924

Attended Temporary Mixed Commission for the Reduction of Armaments, League of Nations, Geneva
Maintained as Ambassador-at-Large, League of Nations

Chairman, American Delegation, Preparatory Commission for the Disarmament Conference, Geneva

1927

Delegate, Conference on Private Manufacture of Arms, Geneva
Chairman of American delegation and conference, Conference for the Further Limitation of Naval Armaments (also called Tripartite
Naval Conference or the Three Power Conference), Geneva

The Hugh Gibson papers consist of diaries, writings, correspondence, reports, minutes of meetings, photographs, and printed
matter relating to American foreign relations, international disarmament, the League of Nations, and relief work in Europe
during World Wars I and II. Gibson's diaries are also available on microfilm, and his food mission diaries of 1946 and 1947
also available at http://www.hoover.org/library-archives/collections/food-mission-diaries-hugh-gibson-1946-and-1947.

The first increment was acquired in 2013 (boxes 153-155) and is comprised of personal family correspondence, and an address
book. The bulk of the correspondence is letters sent to Ynes Gibson and maintains the creators original arrangement.

The second increment was acquired in 2014 (boxes 156-157) and is comprised of correspondence, Ynes Gibson's diaries, photographs,
and news clippings, and speeches regarding Gibson's death.